HONG KONG, January 4, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — TSC Offshore Corporation (“TSC”), a wholly owned subsidiary of CMIC Ocean En-Tech Holding Co., Ltd. (“CMIC”) and Offshoretronic SL (“Offshoretronic”) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to combine the two key components of Offshoretronic’s technical engineering expertise in offshore wind transportation and installation and comprehensive TSC offshore equipment design and engineering To bring together manufacturing capabilities to jointly develop and commercialize a key solution that will significantly improve the traditional methods of installing monopiles of offshore wind farms, providing economic viability with high efficiency and reduced costs while increasing operational safety.

The next generation offshore wind turbines with capacities between 15 and 20 MW are expected to come onto the market in the years 2024 to 2030 and in water depths of 40 to70m. This requires a new generation of monopiles with 100-130m in length, 12-15m in outside diameter and weight up to 5,000mt. Transportation and installation of monopiles typically accounts for 1 to 4 days of the installation cycle time and contributes an average of 20% to the cost of WTG installation, mainly due to the need to use expensive heavy-duty crane vessels to install monopiles safely and effectively. Dependence on large, heavy-duty cranes, which have limited supply, high costs and long lead times, has challenged progress in implementing large offshore wind farm projects to meet accelerating decarbonization deadlines.

The unique tilting and lifting beam and roll-up concept developed by Offshoretronic is tailor-made to safely carry out the transport and installation of the next generation monopiles on which wind turbines are installed. This solution will significantly reduce costs and time, and most importantly, significantly reduce operational risks during port loading, erecting, lifting and…